Cloak and Veil of Stars

Phil Plait writes Slate’s Bad Astronomy blog and is an astronomer, public speaker, science evangelizer, and author of Death From the Skies!

However, lots of folks out there are far more adept at such things than I am and are very clever as well. Also, artistic. For example, on the blog A Beautiful Mess, they have instructions on how to make a scarf with constellations on it!

That sort of thing amazes me. I have a pretty good 3-D spatial reasoning and a decent sense of topology, but it still baffles me how such things get made. If I tried this, I’d wind up making a Klein bottle or something. Disaster would ensue.

But I know a lot of you out there are crafty. Something like this would make an excellent conversation piece at the least and a fantastic gift for the geek in your life (which includes yourself, no doubt) as well.

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